The Forever War
by Joe Haldeman — Pantagruel

Excellent! Enjoy it.

I'm currently reading "Beyond Earth's Horizon", as written by Anthony Fucilla.

Civilization and Its Discontents by Sigmund Freud

The Sunken Land Begins to Rise Again by M. John Harrison

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Civilization and Its Discontents by Sigmund Freud — Maw

A classic. Enjoy.

Just finished Collingwood's "The Principles of Art." I've been thinking about aesthetics a lot recently. I think I finally wore out metaphysics. The book was interesting and helpful. Maybe I'll put together a new discussion about it.

Besides being insightful, by which I mean he see's things in a way similar to me, the book also fulfills my primary requirement for a philosophical work - it's short.

Besides being insightful, by which I mean he see's things in a way similar to me, the book also fulfills my primary requirement for a philosophical work - it's short. — T Clark

The book you're referencing is 350 pages, so it's not exactly short. There is a book on Amazon claiming to be Collingwood's "The Principles of Art," but it's actually a 20 or so page abridged version.

You've still got 330 pages to go.

Since you favor "short books on aesthetics" and self-identify, IIRC, as a pragmatist, I recommend John Dewey's Art as Experience. An even shorter read, at the intersection of aesthetics & metaphysics, is Language and Myth by Ernst Cassirer. Both are more or less Collingwood's peers though they significantly differ in emphases from one another.

The book you're referencing is 350 pages, so it's not exactly short. There is a book on Amazon claiming to be Collingwood's "The Principles of Art," but it's actually a 20 or so page abridged version.

You've still got 330 pages to go. — Hanover

There you go. I was feeling all virtuous and wise and you ruin everything. The long version is not available electronically. Part of my Taoist faith is that books that can't be read in electronic versions do not exist. "The text that's not on Kindle is not the etermal Text." That's what Lao Tzu would have said.

Since you favor "short books on aesthetics" and self-identify, IIRC, as a pragmatist, I recommend John Dewey's Art as Experience. An even shorter read, at the intersection of aesthetics & metaphysics, is Language and Myth by Ernst Cassirer. Both are more or less Collingwood's peers though they significantly differ in emphases from one another. — 180 Proof

Thanks. I'll take a look.

Thanks. I'll take a look. — T Clark

As in, you'll look at the book, but not necessarily read it. Instead of saying, "I didn't read the book, I saw the movie," you're saying, "I saw the book, not the movie."

As in, you'll look at the book, but not necessarily read it. Instead of saying, "I didn't read the book, I saw the movie," you're saying, "I saw the book, not the movie." — Hanover

I've been studying speed reading, so I already got the books and read them. It took me ten minutes. They involve philosophy.

Ravenna, by Judith Herrin

Search for a Naturalistic World View - Shimony

T. C. Boyle – The Tortilla Curtain
Kazuo Ishiguro – The Buried Knight
Virginia Woolf – To the Lighthouse
Tommy Orange – There There

Cold Hand in Mine by Robert Aickman

I looked Aickman up on Wikipedia. He sounds like an interesting writer.

Yes, his stories are pleasingly unsettling.

Écrits by Jacques Lacan

Same here! :100:

Jesus, good luck.

Chester Himes – If He Hollers Let Him Go
Joan Didion – Play It As It Lays
José Antonio Villarreal – Pocho
John Steinbeck – Tortilla Flat

Beyond Good and Evil, Nietzsche and The Sun Sister, Lucinda Riley.

I'll never look at a mirror the same way again

The Sociology of Knowledge: Toward a Deeper Understanding of the History of Ideas
by Werner Stark

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It is only through the conversation of man with man that ideas come into existence. Two human beings are as necessary for the generation of the human mind as they are for the human body
~Feuerbach

Interesting introductory quote; I'd agree with this: Consciousness is essentially interactive.

Jude the Obscure
by Thomas Hardy

I love returning to his novels once and a while. One of my favorite writers.

Haven't read this one but I am a sucker for Victorian Lit in general. Thomas Carlyle and Sir Walter Scott are a couple of my new top picks from last year's reading.

Thomas Hardy — Pantagruel

I really like Hardy, but I've never read that one.